Re: Build fails make check.

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Keith,
> I am building I configured binutils-2.17 
Note: The 2.18 sources were released a while ago now...

> make check failed. The relevant lines are 
>
> FAIL: TLS -fpic -shared
> FAIL: TLS -fpic and -fno-pic exec
> FAIL: TLS -fpic and -fno-pic exec -relax
> FAIL: ld-elf/64ksec
> FAIL: vers24a
> FAIL: vers24b
> FAIL: vers24c
> FAIL: vers30
> FAIL: vers31
>   
> I suspect, from previous experiences, that the problem is with new 
> relocation mechanisms that the alpha utilities haven't caught up with.
> Point me in the right direction and I will be happy to assist with 
> solving these problems, testing fixes and so forth.
>   
First please try building and testing a linker using the latest 
binutils development sources.  It is quite likely that these problems 
have already been fixed.
( I tested an alpha-linux-gnu cross toolchain and that did not show 
these failures, but then some of the tests as specific to native 
toolchains).

Cheers
 Nick